To understand and empathize with how workers in many or most fields outside software experience advances in AI capabilities, I propose a little thought experiment.
If it weren’t for the constant, vocalized threat (from CEOs!) of being replaced as a software engineer, it would be (and is) pretty exhilarating time to be a software engineer right now
Your thesis is achievable today. Using code as the medium for creative practices enables genuine collaboration with current LLMs. Digital creative pursuits are best distilled as explicit computer logic rather than actions within arbitrary interfaces.
This is why we should publish AI generated art like we publish code, document your tools, process, pipeline, and prompts, so the work can be recreated. Just publishing the images feels like cheating.